Foundation Capital

“We actually stepped up to lead the seed round in Azure Power, and over the, Journey of that investment, we attracted capital from investors like IFC and Foundation Capital and a bunch of DFIs. And eventually you know, over an eight, nine period journey with th…”

“So, in some ways, the founders today that I see being successful are more technical than the founders in the SaaS way. Which also means that repeat entrepreneurs who grew up in a less technical world are struggling with the technical complexity. They're strugg…”

“Every startup in the AI application space, every, you know, service as software startup has to first and foremost internalize that their vendor is also their competitor. The model provider is both vendor and competitor. And that's a hard place to be. And they …”

“I have a startup that's, you know, barely six months off the ground. They're about to sign what might be a thirty million dollar deal.”

“And we're investing in both, you know, for example, my partner Joanne has a very successful context graph company in Tenor, which is going after healthcare.”

“There is Tessera who's doing it for ERP migrations and automations. There is Olive that is doing that for sales and Reggie for demand generation. So we have many examples of these, this in our portfolio, and there are many examples outside our portfolio to be …”

“So we are either investing in two things. We're either investing in systems of agents, or we're investing in enabling infrastructure. The common theme across these is the context graph.”

“Our belief is that the most successful AI startups of the future will be those that are able to build a moat by building a unique context graph.”

“We were the first investors in Solana.”

“So I think there will be the trillion dollar plus opportunity will get captured by a hundred plus winners in context graphs.”

“We believe that the best, the companies that win in the era of context graphs will find a way to deliver enough value that they earn the right to build a context graph.”

“Think of a context graph as the institutional memory for an organization. At its simplest level, it is an aggregation of the knowledge of why decisions were made, how they were made, who made them. And the why often has to be inferred from the how and the who.…”

“So look, obviously this varies from customer to customer, but the common pattern we're seeing is we're seeing a 30 to 80% reduction in exceptions.”

“I have a company called Vivid, started by another Ashu guard and Varun Kacholia. So Varun and Ashu, who are also the founders of Eightfold, had this idea that We need to capture the institutional memory of a human as a digital twin.”